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From: "David Weston" <>
Subject: [DNA] Settlements/Place-Names of Scandinavian Origin in England
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 16:46:28 -0300

Hello,

On the topic of Scandinavian settlement in England, I found the folllowing website which shows a
density map of settlements or parish place-names that are of Scandinavian language origin are mainly
found.

http://www.viking.no/e/england/danelaw/ekart-danelaw.htm

This is potentially relevant to genetic deep ancestry studies. I would expect intuitively that the
distribution of YDNA and mtDNA profiles of Scandinavian origin in England, assuming they can be
differentiated, would roughly correspond to the distribution of Scandinavian
place-names/settlements. I don't know if this is true or not. Some acceptable way to account for
the internal movement of people since the time of the Danelaw would have to be found. I will
attempt to do so eventually for East Anglia. However, this map shows the concentration of
Scandinavian place-names/settlements is far greater in central and northern England, particularly in
Lincolnshire and the Midlands (Warkwickshire, Leicestshire). I would think it would pockets of
identifiable Scandivian DNA might be more readily identifiable in these areas than East Anglia.

Cheers, David W.

David Weston
Project Administrator
East Anglia Geographic DNA Project
http://www.geocities.com/thurlowons/eagdna/

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